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In March 1906, the paper moved to nearby El Centro where, under the leadership of editor and publisher Felix G. Havens, it expanded both its potential readership and its title, becoming the Imperial Valley Press and the Imperial Press on March 3, 1906. Though no longer claiming the value of water within its masthead, the paper continued to ...
442/760 – Covers all of the El Centro metropolitan area as well as Palm Springs, Oceanside, Bishop, Ridgecrest, Barstow, and Needles; northern San Diego County; and southeastern California, including much of the Mojave Desert and the Owens Valley. Area code 760 split from area code 619 on March 22, 1997, and was overlaid with area code 442 in ...
In 1966, Yarborough was elected mayor of Lake Elsinore by his fellow city council members. [12] [1] At the time, he was one of three African American mayors elected to office in California. [3] The other two African-Americans who became mayor in predominantly white communities that year were Dubois McGee of El Centro and Ben F. Gross of ...
El Centro is the most populous city in the Imperial Valley, the east anchor of the Southern California Border Region, and the core urban area and principal city of the El Centro metropolitan area which encompasses all of Imperial County. El Centro is also the most populous U.S. city to lie entirely below sea level (−42 feet or −13 meters).
The original Imperial County courthouse was built in 1908 in the City of El Centro. [4] The current Imperial County courthouse was subsequently built upon a "five acre tract" of donated land in the City of El Centro on West Main St. [4] The courthouse was completed in 1924 and designed by architects Ralph Emerson Swearingen and Don W. Wells.
Salcido graduated from El Rancho High School, where he would later become a teacher, in 1986. [2] Salcido received his bachelor's degree in history from Whittier College. [2] Salcido started teaching in 1998 a few months after graduating from college. [4] A year later, Salcido ran for and won a position on the Pico Rivera City Council.
1940 El Centro earthquake; 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake; 2010 Baja California earthquake; G. Mexicali International Airport; H. ... Salton City, California;
KVYE (channel 7) is a television station licensed to El Centro, California, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision.